Label: WEA Music (Japan), WPCR-10407
Style: Progressive Rock, New Age
Country: Reading, Berkshire, England (15 May 1953)
Time: 42:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 259 Mb
Charts: UK #40, AUT #35, GER #16, SPA #3, SWI #34. SPA: Platinum.
Ever
the sonic experimentalist, Mike Oldfield uses guitars exclusively
(strummed, plucked, struck, sampled, etc.) to create every sound on
Guitars. Perhaps an intentional response to the composer's previous
assortment of electronic recordings, the album suffers from its
form-over-substance concept. The more delicate, acoustic material
("Summit Days," "Muse," "Enigmatism") has the meditative, elegant
quality listeners would naturally expect from Oldfield. But the
crunchier rock guitar ensembles seem to lack Oldfield's usual sense of
order and purpose. "Four Winds," an unfinished cluster of distorted
racket, really misses its mark. Miscues like this one demonstrate that
Oldfield is as awkward with the rock form as he is accomplished with his
subtle and meditative electronic creations. Innovative and at times
beautiful, Guitars is another interesting experiment from one of modern
music's most ambitious icons.
(allmusic.com/album/guitars-mw0000767059)
01. Muse (02:12)
02. Cochise (05:15)
03. Embers (03:51)
04. Summit Day (03:46)
05. Out Of Sight (03:48)
06. B. Blues (04:30)
07. Four Winds (09:32)
08. Enigmatism (03:32)
09. Out Of Mind (03:46)
10. From The Ashes (02:28)
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